Vau i Dejës Hydroelectric Power Station
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The Vau i Dejës Hydroelectric Power Station is a
hydroelectric Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...
dam on the
Drin River The Drin (; sq, Drin or ; mk, Дрим, Drim ) is a river in Southern and Southeastern Europe with two distributaries one discharging into the Adriatic Sea and the other one into the Buna River. Its catchment area extends across Albania, K ...
, in
Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...
, near
Vau i Dejës Vau i Dejës (), English: Deja's Ford, is a town and a municipality in Shkodër County, northwestern Albania. It was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Bushat, Hajmel, Shllak, Temal, Vau i Dejës, ...
. Completed in 1973, the project consists of five
turbines A turbine ( or ) (from the Greek , ''tyrbē'', or Latin ''turbo'', meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful Work (physics), work. The work produced by a turbine can be used ...
of
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origin, each with a nominal capacity of , totaling the installed capacity to .Vau i Dejës Hydro Power Plant
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List of power stations in Albania This article lists the main power stations in Albania. There were a total of 144 active power stations that operated throughout the country for the year 2016. The table below lists only stations that have at least 10 MW of power capacity. Hydroel ...


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Hydroelectric power stations in Albania Dams completed in 1973 Buildings and structures in Vau i Dejës {{Hydroelectric-power-plant-stub